I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.

I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.